Bed-bottom



' (NO' Model.)

w. nyscowfr. BED BOTTOM. No. 487,430. Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM H SCOTT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

BED-BOTTOM.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,430, dated December 6, 1892. Application filed December 31,1891- Serial No. 416,639- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Bed-Bottom, of which the followingis a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in combined bedstead-braces and mattress-supports.

The object of the present invention is to provide means for bracing bedsteads to prevent the joints from becomingloose or broken by the strain incident to using and moving a bedstead and to provide a brace that can be adjusted to strengthen and draw inwardly the parts composing a bedstead which has already become loose at the joints andis weak.

A further object of the invention is to provide a brace that can be adjusted to bedsteads of different sizes and that will not only render them rigid, but that will dispense with the usual slats.

The invention consists in a brace for bedsteads arranged to project into each corner thereof and be adjusted to bear laterally and longitudinally against the same to brace a bedstead and also to support the mattress.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bedstead provided with a combined brace and mattress-support constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures of the drawings.

1 and 2 designate bracing-bars which are arranged in pairs and extend diagonally across the bedstead and are crossed intermediate their ends and have their outerends connected to the head-board 3 and the footboard at and arranged in the corners thereof. The inner ends of the bracing-bars 1 and 2 are adj ustably connected with the side rails 5. The braces 1 and 2 of each pair, which cross each other intermediate their ends, have their opposed faces recessed at 6, the point of crossing, to bring the upper and lower faces of the bracing-bars in the same horizontal planes and have them flush. The inner ends of one pair cross the inner ends of the other pair, and the inner ends of both pairs are recessed at the points of crossing and are secured to longitudinallydisposed slotted plates 7 by bolts 8, arranged in slots 9 and provided with clamping-nuts adapted to secure the inner ends of the bracing-bars in their adjustment. The slotted plates 7 extend longitudinaily from the inner faces of the side rails of the bedstead and permit the bracing-bars to draw the side rails and the head-boards inward, thereby truly bracing the bedstead instead of straining and forcing the parts outward. This construction also adapts the bracing-bars to bedsteads of dif ferent sizes. The outer ends of the bracingbars are pivoted to blocks 11, which are socured to the head and foot boards.

The bracing-bars form a complete bed-bottom and are adapted to support a mattress and dispense with slats. They are readily adjustable to suit bedsteads of different sizes,

they brace a bedstead or draw the parts together and prevent the same becoming loose at the joints or separating, and they may be advantageously employed to brace a bedstead which is weak and loose at the joints-that is, draw the parts together.

What I claim is The combination, with the rectangular bedframe comprising the foot and head board and the opposite side rails provided with the usual ledges and connecting the foot and head board, of blocks 11, secured to the head and foot boards in line with the adjacent portions of the side rails, an elongated slotted plate secured to the inner central portion of each of the side rails and resting on the ledges of the same and disposed longitudinally, two pairs of diagonallydisposed bracing bars crossing each other in such manner as to bring one pair above the other and having their inner ends adj ustably attached to the elongated slotted plates and their outer ends secured to the blocks 11 of the head and foot board, and bolts for adj ustably securing said ends to the said parts, said pairs of braces having their opposed faces recessed at the point of crossing to bring the upper and lower faces in the same horizontal planes to provide a flush upper surface, said recessesin the op- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as posed faces of the braces being longer than my own Ihave hereto affixed my signature 1n the width of said braces to permit a sliding the presence of two witnesses.

adjustment without detaching or disconnect- \VILLIAM H. SCOTT. ing the parts, the said outer ends of each pair Witnesses: of braces being pivotally attached to thehead \VM. 0. DOUGHERTY,

and footboards, substantially as described. \V. G. KARPE. 

